User talk:Green America

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Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. However, I noticed that your username (Green America) may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is the name of a group and used for editing on behalf of the group. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you.

The Hershey Company
Hello. I saw your edit to the The Hershey Company article. Your username suggests you are affiliated with Green America and your use of a Green America page as your source for a point of view edit is in violation of our neutral point of view policy and our conflict of interest policy. Try discussing the topic on the article's talk page instead and wait for a non-involved editor to add it.--v/r - TP 19:31, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello Green America. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:41, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; you are welcome to create a new account with a username that represents only you. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. Thank you. -- Ed (Edgar181) 19:50, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Please also note that, whatever username you use, it is not acceptable to edit to promote the organisation to which you belong or its cause. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:52, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

We just wanted to add information about existing criticisms about the company's labor practice, which is a socially and publicly-discussed subject -- The Hershey Company, being one of the major chocolate producers, has not been third-party certified.If it was just about the link and username conflict of interest issue, we can cite many other sources that demonstrate the same problem. The reason why we added that line is to recognize a fact about the company and its recent presence in social media. The Tulane Report gives in-depth research background about the reality in cocoa industry in African countries and calls for transparency as well as well-established certification systems

We would also like to know how to become unblocked. Thanks.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Green America (talk • contribs) 20:18, 20 April 2011

Put at the bottom of this page. Your reason should include an indication in broad terms what edits you intend to make, making it clear that will not edit in a promotional way. It should also indicate that the account will be used by only one person. (For copyright and other reasons Wikipedia's policy is that an account is for an individual, but I note your use of the word "we".) Your reason should also give a username you are willing to change to, which does not suggest that you are editing on behalf of an organisation. An administrator will assess your request, and if that admin decides to accept your unblock request you can then request a change of username at Changing username/Simple. You may also like to read Changing username. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:10, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Green American, I think it would be best if you avoided editing The Hershey Company topic directly since you have a conflict of interest. Why don't you propose your changes on Talk:The Hershey Company in the meantime and let other editors consider adding the information?  Also, just to not, User:Ilovegreen exists but has made no edits.  You can request a username usurpation at Changing_username/Usurpations so you can get the username for yourself.--v/r - TP 01:30, 22 April 2011 (UTC)


 * For the sake of clarity:
 * As you are currently blocked, you cannot edit Talk:The Hershey Company, or request usurpation
 * Before we can consider unblocking your account so that you can put in a username usurpation, would you agree not to edit the The Hershey Company article, but to discuss amendments/additions on its talk page, and allow a consensus to be reached - and someone else to actually make the changes to the article if that is what the consensus says?
 * Do you understand that should you agree to that condition, and then break it, you could be indefinitely blocked again?
 * Regards,  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 04:25, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. Yes I agree to the condition that I will not edit The Hershey Company page and that there will be consequences if I break the agreement. I will seek alternative methods to discuss the topic on Talk Page and change my username to avoid representation of an organization or conflict of interest.Green America (talk) 14:55, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
 * What username would you like to use? Please use unblock-un to request it. Daniel Case (talk) 03:35, 27 April 2011 (UTC)